Under the Sheets

Chapter 12: Hanging On

[Peyton's P.O.V] 

Just as we were about to try and get out the window somehow, the door to the bed room came crashing down to the floor behind us. Ellie jumped in front of me, spreading herself out to cover me. The man didn't have anything to hide his identity, which was strange. The previous men had something over their face. This can't possibly be one of them.

I heard Ellie's breath shorten and felt her hands got ready to swing at the man. 

"What the fuck are you doing here Charlie?! What's gotten into your head?"

Ellie actually knew this guy. I moved to the side a little bit to look at the man. He gave a maniac kind of smile my way and Ellie looked back to see half of my face poking out from behind her. 

"Peyton, I'm warning you. Stay. Back. Now."

I stepped back, nearly going through the window. 

"Charlie if you don't explain yourself within the next minute we're going to have a huge problem. Either way, we're going to have a huge problem."

She waited for him to answer. He didn't. He just stood there with the same grin on his face. Ellie couldn't take it anymore so she began to walk over to him. He lunged forward. When they collided, Ellie went back from a hard slap across the face. I stepped forward and she shot me a glance. 

'Stay' she mouthed. She stayed facing me, pretending she was hurt while the man let his body relax from the sudden movement he made. Just when he thought she was going to give up, he leaned into her trap. When he leaned his body down, she kicked right where she knew it would hurt. 

He dropped to his knees, giving Ellie the chance to grab his hands and put them behind his back. Her head gave a nod for me to come around to help her. When I did, she gave me his hands to hold behind him while she went to get a chair. He started laughing and I didn't know what else to do, so I pushed him down to the ground and put my knee in between his shoulder blades and pressed. He gritted his teeth as Ellie came back in with a chair and duct tape. 

"Here, let me take him. You get the tape ready."

Ellie picked him up without a problem. Just like he was a feather. When she plopped him onto the chair the duct tape immediately went onto his wrists and she bent down to look at his eyes.  Her hand picked up his head and he looked at her. 

"He's fucking high as a kite right now. He won't remember anything in a little bit. Little prick."

She got up and walked around us, running her hand through her hair. 

"Ellie?"

"What?!"

"Never mind..."

Her hands came to touch my shoulders and she sat down behind me as I was kneeling. I felt her tug on me to sit in her lap, and after a few tries I was down. Lips lingered by my neck and her hands wrapped around my stomach. When her chin rested on my shoulder she started talking again. 

"I didn't mean to seem like a bitch. Sorry. I'm just very tense right now."

I kept my eyes on the guys hands as she talked. We were both sitting behind him. 

"What were you going to ask me?"

I stayed silent, asking myself in my mind if I should ask her. I felt a little tickling sensation on my stomach and tried my best to hold in laughter. 

"What were you gonna ask me, huh?" 

She kept tickling me until I put my hands up. When the mini tickle party was over, she placed me back on her lap.